FYSM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Well-Order, Thrasymachus, Practical Reason

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Week 2 - september 14 - classical philosophies of (cid:858)natural law(cid:859) - human. Plato is a greek philosopher from the peloponnesian war times. Most of his dialogues feature socrates as the principal narrator. Plato maintains that justice is a good to be chosen for its own sake and that it is a fundamental virtue of an ideal, well-ordered society. (pg. 13) the type of human rational capacities that he thinks must be realized in accordance with the nature of the good, if a just community is to be achieved. (pg. Justice should be placed in the highest class. Justiceissometimes spoken of as the virtue of an individual, and sometimes as the virtue of a state. (pg. 15) make sure you know if he is talking about individual or state justice. That one man should practice one thing only, the thing to which his nature was best adapted; - now justice is this principle or a part of it. (pg.

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